[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #5367: Wordpress cookie authentication vulnerability

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#5367: Wordpress cookie authentication vulnerability
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 Reporter:  sjmurdoch                |        Owner:  westi   
     Type:  defect                   |       Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                   |    Milestone:  2.5     
Component:  Security                 |      Version:  2.3.1   
 Severity:  normal                   |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  security, password, md5  |  
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Comment (by sambauers):

 Am I missing something or is the SECRET_KEY now not doing anything at all?

 wp_salt() defines $secret_key from SECRET_KEY on lines 713 - 715 of
 pluggable.php, but then doesn't concatenate it with $salt

 Also, should some value be auto-generated for $secret_key if there is no
 SECRET_KEY defined or do we just rely on the DB based secret in that case?

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